Religious Civil Rights: Why Have the Washington Times and the Air Force...
Last week, a Washington Times editorial, "Air Force witchcraft," tried denigrating adherents of earth-centered religions by referencing a timely quote from Julius Caesar. The religions of the barbaric...
View ArticleLaw & Order's homeschool fixation
A couple of years ago, I stopped watching Law & Order SVU, in part because of the homeschool fixation of the producers and writers of the series. I almost felt that when "the cellos" kicked in with...
View ArticleRob Woodall and health care entitlement
In this video Congressman Rob Woodall (R-GA), first tells one woman, apparently retired from a company that doesn't provide health care benefits for retirees, that she shouldn't expect government...
View ArticleI promised her I'd share
At her aunt's birthday party, my 7-year-old granddaughter recorded this short conversation with her younger cousin using her phone (a non-calling hand-me-down for game-playing). Download Memo For those...
View ArticleAmerican military as a socialist entity
The local headline of Nicholas Kristof's column today in the Kansas City Star, gave me a laugh: The Socialist U.S. Military System Works -- Hoo-ah! I came to the same conclusion decades ago, not that...
View ArticleDon't know much about history
At Boston.com, Jeff Jacoby writes about the National Assessment of Educational Progress's (NAEP) report that states, Less than one-quarter of students perform at or above the Proficient level [in...
View ArticleIn Plain Sight
Finally, a tv show on which the homeschooling family is shown in a positive light. Girls, Interrupted, In Plain Sight A family Mary Shannon comes across while chasing the errant dog, of whom she has...
View ArticleVoter ID: who is pro, and who is con depends on the politics of the day
2011: Rolling Stone The GOP war on voting In a campaign supported by the Koch brothers, Republicans are working to prevent millions of Democrats from voting next year ... 2010: Infowars Biometric...
View ArticlePhotoshopped propaganda
The last few days on Facebook, I've seen pictures people have either been acclaimed by the people who have shared them, or the person felt the picture to be an embarassment. The thing I feel these...
View ArticleJust checking to see if this blog still works
This poor blog has been so neglected since the advent of Facebook. The technological changes are flying by about as fast as the books are piling up.
View ArticleFinding a blog subject in the era of direct social networking
I used to use this blog to share jokes, pictures I like, and interesting websites, as well as letting off steam. Now, with Facebook (and potentially with Google+) I can 'talk' directly with people who...
View ArticleGotye
If I put the link here, it won't go down the memory hole as quickly as in other places. Gotye
View ArticleLiberals, Don’t Homeschool Your Kids
The subject line is the title of a Slate article. I'd take apart the article, but most of it is of the 'old news' variety that has been dealt with many times. Effective research would have revealed...
View ArticleRecreational sex
I rarely watch television news, but during this evening's exercise, I did. When I watch television programs, they're usually DVRed and I skip the commercials. I guess I'm remembering the long-ago...
View ArticleThe US Army is Doomed
This weekend, all I seem to be thinking about is sex. It's enough to make the children blush. In my online travels, I ran across this blog post (with the same subject line) concerning the use by the...
View ArticleHonk if this is the scenery you'd like to see on your vacation
I-70 between St. Louis and Kansas City is a forest of billboards. The reason given (that I've seen) for permitting this blight is that business owners will lose customers if billboards don't let...
View ArticleTropes vs. Women in Video Games
Anita Sarkeesian, creator of the Feminist Frequency vlog and pop culture critic, has started a project called "Tropes vs. Women in Video Games." I'm probably the last person to be commenting on gaming...
View ArticleSt. Louis City Museum
Last week we took the grandkids on a trip to St. Louis. My sister and niece, who live within half-an-hour or so of the city, served as our tour guides. Their destination of choice was the City Museum....
View ArticleItalian geophysicists convicted of not having a reliable crystal ball
And I thought some states and school boards in the U.S. had the lock on scientific illiteracy. This decision makes it appear that these Italian jurists are stuck in the 1600s. Earthquake predictions...
View ArticleAlleged Benghazigate
I’ve been watching the Benghazi-attack rumor mill ramp itself up into a political cyclone of hysteria. Most of us of a certain age have probably seen the “surgical strike” imagery from Desert Storm....
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